Christopher Smith
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I’m not experienced with iDVD (I used in for one project in 2002, and when it crashed, corrupting all the versions of my project, I never went back to it). But my guess would be that iDVD automatically creates a subchapter menu for the main feature of a disc. When you bring in the next video, it doesn’t know what to do, as there’s already a subchapter menu. This might be an incorrect assumption, but it is what jumped to mind when I read your post.
DVDSP is a much better application, and is the only one which allows scripting. Sadly, Adobe Encore was never completed, and doesn’t do scripts. Scripts enable solutions to almost any issue of control and movement around a DVD. Your issue is easily solved with scripting.
Actually, you might be able to solve your issue with Adobe Encore. You only want buttons which target specific chapters, which is not difficult on Encore. (Encore can’t turn subtitles on and off, but you didn’t mention subtitles and alternate languages.)
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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Rick,
I can’t fully picture what you mean that it put another marker before your three stories.
You have one track with all 3 clips in it, one after the other.
Chapter 1 is first clip, Chapter 2 is second clip, Chapter 3 is third clip.Your menu would have 4 buttons. “One” targets story 1 (which is just playing chapter 1), etc. Each Story just plays one of the Chapters. And fourth button “Play All” targets the Track containing all the clips.
As long as you set the End Jump of each Story to “Same as Track”, all 4 playbacks (each of the 3 clips, and Play All) will all do the same thing at the end, which is to return to the Menu. If you want to highlight a specific button on the Menu upon that return to menu, then the End Jump would go to a script to figure out which button to highlight. (In that case, of course, you’d have to make the Menu buttons go to a script first to capture what button was pressed, before they go to playback the Story or Track.)
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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Alan,
My first opinion is that you’re falling victim to the gradual incompatibility of DVDSP with later OSes. Please see my post in this forum for a few workarounds and lessons I’ve learned while running DVDSP on Mavericks, El Capitan, and now Sierra.I, too, continue to get many requests for DVDs. DVDs certainly are not dead in the real world!
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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So while the viewer is watching the video, their screen would still appear as you’ve shown it (i.e. like a menu)?
If so, I think you could figure out a way to script the buttons to do that. They wouldn’t be able to play the video at various speeds (visual rewind or fast forward), but they could click a button to start the video from the beginning.
If the video was a menu, there would be problems. You can only script going to the start and the loop point of a menu, and you can’t pause a menu. You can’t put chapters markers in a menu. So, no, you’d have to do this as a regular video track, with the subtitles track acting as your buttons. Then you could freeze the video (e.g. at the start) until they push play, by creating the first chapter of video as a freeze frame and programing a stop at the end of that first chapter. They would push play, and jump to chapter 2 and go from there.
I haven’t used buttons in a subtitle track, but I know it’s supposed to work, although I’m not sure if you can have multiple buttons simultaneously in the subtitle track.
Also, you can’t do this with Adobe Encore, because they never finished the software, so it doesn’t have scripting. You’d have to use DVD Studio Pro.
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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In my experience, working with interlaced footage produces ghosting when the frame rate is resampled. The new frame rate takes advantage of the 60 fields and grabs fields instead of whole frames in order to “best” sample the video. The partial frames (i.e. the fields) produce ghosted edges on fast motion.
But you are staying at 29.97 fps throughout your pipeline, so I’m not sure of the cause. Nevertheless, there must be somewhere in the chain which is not honoring the 29.97 interlaced setting.
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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The issue you have is that the time-altered audio track is 00:27:02:01 rather than 00:27:03:17?
That is an error of 00:00:01:16, or 0.00061614295 (0.06%). I’m thinking that might be simply a rounding error, and shouldn’t affect sync.
Perhaps I’ve misunderstood the difference in length. Is the lip sync off significantly near the end of your video?
The process you’ve described sounds like it should have worked.
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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We’ve definitely had the same behavior from some Windows software players. I would recommend ensuring you have sufficient black at whichever end you’re having the problem. Recently I was supplied video which started immediately with picture, and one of the Windows software players we tested displayed large blocks of color; the problem was solved with 1 second of black added to the start.
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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Hi David
You have encoded your captions into the video file which you exported from Premiere, but that is only for broadcast. You have to mux your video (.m2v), audio (.ac3), and caption file (.scc) together to make a VOB which goes on the DVD. All that muxing and assembling of the DVD happens when you Build the disc in DVDSP. DVDSP doesn’t know to look in your video file to find the captions, and the way the program works during the Build process is only with an SCC file. If you don’t give it an SCC file, it doesn’t put captions into that VOB or video selection on the disc.
I haven’t tried exporting the captions from Premiere as an SCC file, but it appears from Adobe’s support site that it is possible to do that. You would then select that SCC file in the Other tab of the Track Editor dialog.
According to Adobe’s site, you can export a VOB from Premiere, so the muxing of video, audio, and captions would take place at that point. However, you would then be on your own to incorporate that VOB into your disc, without the help of DVDSP to link the flow of the rest of the disc to your VOB. Basically, you’d have to build a track with your video (and don’t worry about telling DVDSP about the captions), Build the disc, and then replace the VOB that DVDSP built with the one you exported from Premiere, which would have the captions built in. I’ve never done that, and now you have me wondering if that wouldn’t be a fun project to try!
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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Oh dear. You say you’re using the latest Premiere, so that’s CC 2015. I would try the latest (just released) update to 2015, which is also known as version 9.0.1.
Have you tried loading a different project? What are the results?
If every project you load has audio problems and compiling errors, it sounds like the best bet would be to remove and reinstall Premiere.
Christopher Smith
CBN International
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Wow, I don’t know what to make of that. I just played around with a sequence set to Mono Master, and changed settings on the meters, but couldn’t duplicate your issue.
Has PP been doing this for a while or only since the last reboot? You could try restarting PP, and if that doesn’t work, reboot, and see if the behavior goes away. My meters are stereo for “stereo master” sequences, and mono for “mono master” sequences. At least so far!Sorry I couldn’t help.
Christopher Smith
CBN International